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I am migrating from SBS 2003 to WS2012Essentials. 5 clients are Win 7 and migrated ok. the 2 clients are XP SP3 and show getting gp updates from the sbs2003 server instead of the new WS2012E server. Gpupdate /force does nothing.
Not sure where to look for a solution.

Not sure if I should post in Windows Server 2012, SBS 2003 or XP forum. Any help would be appreciated.

Sorry about the delayed response. The 2 XP machines were joined to the network manually during the mgration. I could get to files and all seemed OK, except, the gpresult always showed them getting updates from the old server.
Know matter what I did, I couldn't get them to switch to the new server. I didn't want to finish the migration because I didn't trust what would happen later on if I did. One of the XP machines was just retired and will be replaced in the fall.
The other one was replaced immediately because of it's importance. This machine not cooperating was my big concern It is no longer connected to the network by wire. The old server has been removed now. In a few weeks I will bring this
Xp machine back to see if it will get gpupdates from the new server or will it still refuse. My guess is it will move to new server, but I could not get it to at that time. Since then and now the only big change has been dns cleanup.
I think dns was the issue but I won't know for a few weeks yet. Thanks to those who tried to help.

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